Just Another Zen Thing
While here we both lay
like disjointed fragments
of the very same whole
Elsewhere, spun honey
pulled through a flame slow
is mistaken for monastery gold
Just Another Zen Thing
While here we both lay
like disjointed fragments
of the very same whole
Elsewhere, spun honey
pulled through a flame slow
is mistaken for monastery gold
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You describe the after-effects of making two into one most invitingly mi amigo - - love those stolen moments of honey-gold fragments as pulse slows to. norm. -- -- great stuff........ x
Why thank you kindly and oh' so truly tooly my dear lady Fay .. x
A good write zen (then) there N. Corny jokes time from me!
Appreciated Mr. O ....................................................................... 🙂
Orchi conducted a preemptive strike and pinched my corny one liner, Nev...so...
Superficial as my knowledge of Zen is (very), I cannot help but feel those Zen Masters might find a fresh....
And the last three lines - I marvel sometimes at the way ordinary words attached to one another confirm that indeed 'the whole is greater than the sum of its parts'.
If my memory serves me correctly, there is one of my scribbles here with the title 'Every Now & Zen' .. thanking you kindly Dave 🙂
thew words, express
why, at times
during a meditative state
we feel like, we're being pulled apart
torn both that sincerity in our now
and that all-consuming chaos
awaiting, a blink or two away
this is why the yin and yang, states
remain constant
never one or the other in sole authority
like regret and hope, co-existing
in one momentous yet insiginficant
moment...
(another subtle gem, dear Poet
imagery smacks us in the face
but its brevity is so hidden
ever-so subtly
most will read, fish their Cod's of poetic delight
never realising, those more rewarding eels and vendace, depths
that await, those who linger
over these seawater words
and contemplate...)
in a world and time when transparency is all the rage, it seems you can read me like a book .. thank you my friend ..... Neville
A great analogy and wonderful poem put very succinctly and words as smooth as honey.
thank you so very much sorenbarrett, I really do appreciate the visit and kind words you have left behind 🙂
The zen of life meets the enigma of existence in two 3 line stanzas. Short and sweet, and has my head reeling. Things that confound me a lot more these days, you have very simply put into words. Extraordinary write dear Nev!
I am nowt short of being super grateful to you Bella .. thank you so much 🙂
We are so enraptured by the part we are, that the whole completely alludes us. But that aside, your words are composition for meditation
now that is what we call poetry around these here parts .. and I thank you so much for it my friend ..
"Disjointed fragments" and "mistaken" identity, a split personality and an unrecognizable one. A dilemma to ponder, if only for enlightenment, and not the pleasure of the words. I've been thinking on this. - Phil A.
I've heard that it's meant to be good for ya ..thanks for stooping to ponder 🙂
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